Definition of Length. Meaning of Length. Synonyms of Length

- Length is a measure of distance. In the International System of Quantities, length is a quantity with dimension distance. In most systems of measurement...
- have distinctive length. Among the languages that have distinctive length, there are only a few that have both distinctive vowel length and distinctive...
- Arc length is the distance between two points along a section of a curve. Development of a formulation of arc length suitable for applications to mathematics...
- The focal length of an optical system is a measure of how strongly the system converges or diverges light; it is the inverse of the system's optical power...
- Run-length encoding (RLE) is a form of lossless data compression in which runs of data (consecutive occurrences of the same data value) are stored as a...
- Reciprocal length or inverse length is a quantity or measurement used in several branches of science and mathematics, defined as the reciprocal of length. Common...
- In physics, the attenuation length or absorption length is the distance λ into a material when the probability has dropped to 1/e that a particle has...
- Length contraction is the phenomenon that a moving object's length is measured to be shorter than its proper length, which is the length as measured in...
- A vessel's length at the waterline (abbreviated to L.W.L) is the length of a ship or boat at the level where it sits in the water (the waterline). The...
- In physics, coherence length is the propagation distance over which a coherent wave (e.g. an electromagnetic wave) maintains a specified degree of coherence...